MARDI GRAS

Saturday, February 10th • 5 – 8 PM
Durango Elks Lodge
901 E. 2nd Ave.

Tickets
$75 in advance
$85 at the door

Live Band • Creole Inspired Food
Dancing • Specialty Cocktails
Tickets include 2 drink tickets

Open House

Habitat for Humanity of La Plata County is turning 30!

Join us on Friday, Nov. 3rd, from 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. for a family-friendly open house!

Come shop the ReStore after hours, meet our new team, and see what we have planned for our 30th year supporting affordable home ownership in La Plata County!

  • Taco truck
  • Complimentary beer and wine 21+
  • Silent auction
  • $5 game ticket
  • Mini golf hole
  • Free kids activities and crafts

Memorial Service

Friends of Rachel Edith Taylor-Saghie, former Executive Director of Habitat for Humanity La Plata County, are invited to a memorial service on Saturday, July 29, at 1:00 pm, Smiley Building, 3rd Ave and 13th St.

Attire is comfortably celebratory.

Tribute to Rachel Taylor-Saghie

Rachel Taylor-Saghie
1965 – 2023

The Board of Directors, colleagues, clients and friends of Rachel Taylor-Saghie join hands in fond remembrance of the love and devotion to the Habitat mission and to the Habitat families demonstrated by Rachel throughout her life. Her commitment to providing homes for as many as possible serves as a beacon that shines a light on the future of Habitat for Humanity of La Plata County. She will be forever in our hearts.


Those wishing to further honor Rachel may do so through contributions to:

Habitat for Humanity of La Plata County
50 Design Center Rd., Durango, CO 81301 or by clicking here

OR

Rachel Taylor-Saghie Fund at Summit Church
2917 Aspen Dr., Durango, CO 81301
970-247-4213

2023 Mardi Gras

Join us as we celebrate Mardi Gras & Fat Tuesday 2023!

Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023
5:30 p.m.
Doubletree Ballroom

Purchase your ticket online today!

Live Music by “Broke with expensive Tastes,” dancing, two complimentary drink tickets (Specialty Mardi Gras drinks, wine or beer), appetizers, and a carving station. A wide selection of opportunities to bid on locally donated silent auction items! Costumes are encouraged, beads and masks are available at door!

2023 Redball Express

Hooray! It’s Durango Redball Express season!

This fundraiser is a FUN-raiser.

With each $5 donation, you will have the opportunity to win one of three cash prizes ($5000, $2000 or $1000).

Here’s a link to make your donation.

Thanks for your ongoing support for our local Rotary Clubs and the great work we do in our community and around the world.

AmeriCorps NCCC

Our wonderful AmeriCorps NCCC spent a full week of support and leadership Team Building in Bayfield. There are eight individuals from all over the United States serving on our duplex build. As they work to RAISE the ROOF, we are delighted to host them.

With so much uncertainty, we had reduced our jobsite exposure by limiting the magnitude of the volunteers normally welcomed on our builds. Having AmeriCorps assist as has been a huge blessing for our small affiliate.

AmeriCorps NCCC—or the National Civilian Community Corps are 18-26 year olds who spend 10 months strengthening communities while developing their own leadership skills. They serve on teams on short-term projects to help build homes, promote food security, mentor youth, respond to disasters and support communities with other critical needs!

In La Plata County, our wage earners represent some of the moste desperate population. Over the last ten years, wage earners falling within our low-income margins have rising 59.2%! While La Plata County boast of multi-million dollar estates and tourism from around the world, our local workforce has failed to see a notable increase in their income level. The need for home ownership and affordable housing has risen. Home ownership plays a key role in moving many out of poverty into sustainability and self-sufficiency. Thus, we continue to strive toward achieving more housing available for sale to the low-income population.

AmeriCorps, seeing such projects as worthy has come alongside our affiliate for ten years! We are able to achieve completion and supplement our other faithful volunteers with their support!

For more information on serving as an AmeriCorps volunteer and for more on their service areas and mission please visit their website.

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Contractor’s Yard Sale

Due to the various exposure issues surrounding our annual Contractor’s Yard Sale, Home Builders Association of the Southwest and Habitat for Humanity of La Plata County have made the decision to not hold our historic one-day sale. Instead, we are taking building materials intended for the sale and selling them through the ReStore.

Generous contributions from multiple nationwide vendors have been donated to Habitat and our local lumber yards have been graciously transporting the materials down to Durango! We are very thankful for their continued support—Alpine Lumber, Lewis Mercantile, Builder’s First Source and Stud’s Lumber have all played a role in these efforts.

Beginning July 18th, 2020, Alpine Lumber will be bringing items to the ReStore. Our ReStore staff will be pricing and then selling the items through August 31, 2020. The lumber yards will be dropping off materials over several weeks, as space allows in the ReStore front parking area. In addition, new doors and windows will be sold in the back yard.

All sales from these efforts will benefit the Home Builder’s Association of Southwest Colorado and Habitat for Humanity of La Plata County. As we have product dropped off, we will price and upload to our ReStore Dropbox for you to look at…no holds, simply first come, first serve, Monday-Saturday, 9 a.m.- 5 p.m.!

Habitat for Humanity of La Plata County will be using our proceeds to complete the current two homes being constructed in Bayfield.

Your purchases will directly impact the addition of two more affordable homes for deserving low-income households in La Plata County! Be apart of some positive actions in so much uncertainty!

We appreciate you shopping at our ReStore while coming alongside us in building for a healthier community, where supporting those in needs has a viable place!

Shop & Give

Did you know that you can turn your online shopping into money for our mission?  For every purchase you make, Amazon will donate a portion of each purchase’s proceeds to the charity of your choice (us)!  

It only takes a minute to enroll in Amazon Smile.  Then every purchase you make through www.smile.amazon.com will earn money for Habitat!